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Ohio State vs. Oregon Pregame From Ohio Stadium · Buckeyes TomOrrow Morning

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to Ohio Stadium, site of today's game between the
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  Speaker 1: Ohio State Buckeyes and the Oregon Ducks. I'm Tom Orr
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  Speaker 1: all right. I cannot promise that fans will enjoy the
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  Speaker 1: game today. We'll see. This is a really... interesting matchup
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  Speaker 1: between two teams that I think had huge aspirations at
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  Speaker 1: the start of the season and now it's like well
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  Speaker 1: what can you salvage because it still feels like both
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  Speaker 1: of them do have a path to the college football
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  Speaker 1: playoff of the national championship but the path to that
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  Speaker 1: goes through winning this game today.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah two very talented teams still as talented minus their
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  Speaker 2: starting quarterbacks but the talent is all there to help
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  Speaker 2: those other quarterbacks out and neither team can take each
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  Speaker 2: other lightly and Both have come to a situation where
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  Speaker 2: it's a little bit do or die, maybe a little
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  Speaker 2: bit more do or die for Oregon, but Ohio State's
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  Speaker 2: not in the situation where they can afford a loss
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  Speaker 2: here either, so I'm fascinated because we've seen two different
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  Speaker 2: Oregon teams, we've seen kind of two different Ohio State offenses,
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  Speaker 2: two different Ohio State defenses over the course of the season,
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  Speaker 2: so I have I don't want to say no idea
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  Speaker 2: what to expect because that's, you know, it's my job,
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  Speaker 2: but There's not a lot that's going to happen here
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  Speaker 2: that would maybe surprise us.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I look at between the two quarterbacks who are...
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  Speaker 1: not the starting quarterbacks that these teams started the season with.
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  Speaker 1: The fact that Oregon has been very up and down.
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  Speaker 1: Dylan Rayola, you look at Dylan Rayola's stats, he came
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  Speaker 1: in early in the game against USC, so he's played
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  Speaker 1: almost five full games as Oregon's quarterback. And he has
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  Speaker 1: three games where he's like over 250 yards and two
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  Speaker 1: games where he's under 100 yards. And it's like, all right,
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  Speaker 1: spin the wheel of Rayola, and what is it going
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  Speaker 1: to come up with today? This is an Ohio State
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  Speaker 1: defense that all season you would have said, well, they're
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  Speaker 1: not going to be able to get big plays on
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  Speaker 1: this Ohio State defense. No big plays. No plays of
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  Speaker 1: 40 yards or more before last week. And then the
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  Speaker 1: second play from scrimmage, you got the big play. And
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  Speaker 1: they got another one later. And that really did them
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  Speaker 1: in against USC. As crazy as it sounds to say,
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  Speaker 1: I feel like... hey, they're getting their freshman cornerback back today. Boy,
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  Speaker 1: that feels like Jay Timmons might be one of the
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  Speaker 1: keys to making sure they go back to the previous version,
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  Speaker 1: the good version of the Ohio State defense.
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  Speaker 2: I would agree with that completely. The interesting thing of
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  Speaker 2: those two big plays, 139 yards on those two plays,
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  Speaker 2: they went a total of about, I don't know, maybe
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  Speaker 2: 10 yards downfield when you take the minus 5 and
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  Speaker 2: the 15 or whatever from those throws. The difference here
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  Speaker 2: is that Oregon's going to attack you downfield. Dylan Ray
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  Speaker 2: on the lobster attack downfield. They'll also do the short,
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  Speaker 2: quick stuff But with the J. Timmons back, we saw
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  Speaker 2: last week they went right at that nickel situation. USC's
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  Speaker 2: offense did. They attacked and attacked and attacked it. You
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  Speaker 2: can't necessarily do that with J. Timmons. And I think
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  Speaker 2: we've seen Devin Sanchez and Jermaine Matthews, when they've been challenged,
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  Speaker 2: they've stood up to the challenge. They're going to be
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  Speaker 2: challenged in this game. So you expect J. Timmons coming.
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  Speaker 2: He'll be a little rusty maybe.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe.
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  Speaker 2: But still, him and rust is better than what they've had.
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  Speaker 2: without him I think the key then is the long
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  Speaker 2: stuff down the field out wide that Matthews and Sanchez
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  Speaker 2: are going to have to contain.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah and it's Matthews Sanchez it's Jalen McLean who did
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  Speaker 1: not have a phenomenal game against USC it's Earl Little
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  Speaker 1: who I did a show with Ross Fulton breaking down
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  Speaker 1: some of the scheme stuff and he thought Earl Little
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  Speaker 1: might have been in the wrong spot on that first
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  Speaker 1: long play So the guys who had stuff cleaned up
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  Speaker 1: in the back end of the defense, if they continue
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  Speaker 1: to have stuff cleaned up, it feels like you can
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  Speaker 1: eliminate that or at least limit that. But, man, this
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  Speaker 1: is a talented group of Oregon wide receivers. That all
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  Speaker 1: starts with Evan Stewart. We watched the Oregon-Northwestern game this week, and, boy,
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  Speaker 1: having Evan Stewart out there is just, he just finds
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  Speaker 1: a way to make things happen.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, he catches what you throw to him. He can
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  Speaker 2: catch contested balls. He can make stuff happen after that.
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  Speaker 2: And we've seen him over the years against Ohio State,
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  Speaker 2: have some good games against Ohio State. But then you've
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  Speaker 2: also got DeCorey and Moore, right over 100 yards receiving
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  Speaker 2: against Northwestern. He's dynamic inside and out. Getting Jeremiah McClellan back,
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  Speaker 2: another talented wide receiver. They've got a good tight end.
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  Speaker 2: So this whole passing outfit for Oregon may be as
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  Speaker 2: healthy as it's been and able to stretch the ball,
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  Speaker 2: stretch the field more than even with Dante Moore. He
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  Speaker 2: was more of a short passing guy. That's not really
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  Speaker 2: Dylan Royale's thing. He likes to go for it, which
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  Speaker 2: sometimes hurts them, sometimes helps them. So Ohio State has
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  Speaker 2: to be more on the hurting side of this.
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  Speaker 1: And one other piece of good news that Ohio State got.
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  Speaker 1: We saw Edward Houston leave the field looking like he
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  Speaker 1: was real banged up at the end of that USC game.
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  Speaker 1: He has been off the availability report all week. So
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  Speaker 1: very good news that he is going to be back
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  Speaker 1: and healthy and ready to go this week for Ohio State.
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  Speaker 1: On the other side of the ball, week two of
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  Speaker 1: Luke Fahey. And no Jacoby Jackson. We know that. Ian
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  Speaker 1: Moore is back off the availability report. That was very
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  Speaker 1: good news for Ohio State this week. But, man, what
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  Speaker 1: to expect from Luke Fahey in Week 2? He's at
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  Speaker 1: home now, so that would help. There's no rain this week.
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  Speaker 1: That should help. But it's a better defense than they
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  Speaker 1: were facing last week.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, no need for a silent count or anything like that.
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  Speaker 2: He's more experienced now. And that was one of the
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  Speaker 2: questions I wanted to ask Ryan Day this week is, like,
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  Speaker 2: what are the conversations like now with Luke Fahey after
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  Speaker 2: he's had an entire game?
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  Speaker 1: Mm-hmm.
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  Speaker 2: Can you see the experience? Are the conversations more elevated?
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  Speaker 2: And then, so he's more experienced, but also there's more
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  Speaker 2: footage out there, there's more film out there on what
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  Speaker 2: he likes to do. So Oregon may try to force
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  Speaker 2: him into some of the stuff and then take advantage
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  Speaker 2: of that, like force him to roll out and then boom,
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  Speaker 2: hit him with something on that side where that's what
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  Speaker 2: they're expecting him to do. So he's going to have
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  Speaker 2: to contend with that, but you're never going to say, well,
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  Speaker 2: I'd rather him not have experience so that nobody knows
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  Speaker 2: what he's capable of. And that experience that he had,
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  Speaker 2: I thought he was capable of a lot. He was
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  Speaker 2: poised against USC. I think Ross also probably pointed out,
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  Speaker 2: like we did when we did our instant reaction, there
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  Speaker 2: were some reads that were missed from him. Does he
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  Speaker 2: hit those in terms of, like, pulling, in terms of throwing,
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  Speaker 2: all of those different things that would have picked up
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  Speaker 2: 17 yards instead of two.
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  Speaker 1: So then the big question is, okay, you've got Austin
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  Speaker 1: Cervell back, you've got Phillip Daniels back, you've got Ian
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  Speaker 1: Moore back, but Ian Moore was a little bit of
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  Speaker 1: a question throughout the course of the week. The starting
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  Speaker 1: offensive line is.
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  Speaker 2: Well, and they rotated at right tackle last week.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Is Austin Cereveld to the point now where they don't
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  Speaker 2: need him to rotate? Probably. Why would you pull Austin
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  Speaker 2: Cereveld off the field at any point? So I'm going
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  Speaker 2: to assume Philip Daniels is going to be watching this
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  Speaker 2: game and playing on special teams, and that it's going
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  Speaker 2: to be Austin Cereveld full-time at right tackle. Is that
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  Speaker 2: the right answer? I mean, I think consistency is the
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  Speaker 2: right answer.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Is this the right five? I think that's still my question.
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  Speaker 2: And Ryan Day doesn't seem to think it's a question
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  Speaker 2: at all.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, every time he's talked about where he's going to play,
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  Speaker 1: where Searveld is going to play if he's available, he
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  Speaker 1: said tackle. So I think the first thought people might
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  Speaker 1: have is, well, you had him starting at right guard
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  Speaker 1: at the beginning of the season. It doesn't sound like
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  Speaker 1: that's what they're going to do, but I'm kind of prepared.
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  Speaker 1: Like we said earlier, I'm kind of prepared for almost
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  Speaker 1: anything at that point because you can look at it,
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  Speaker 1: you can make an argument for– well, Ian Moore didn't
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  Speaker 1: play left tackle in practice a bunch this week, so
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  Speaker 1: do you keep him there? Do you put him back
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  Speaker 1: at right tackle? Do you put him back where he was?
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  Speaker 1: You can kind of make an argument for any of them.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know that there is a clear-cut, this is
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  Speaker 1: definitely the right answer kind of situation.
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  Speaker 2: Did Philip Daniels play well enough that you want to
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  Speaker 2: put Austin Sirvel back at guard?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, possible. So, yeah, that's another storyline we'll be watching.
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  Speaker 1: had a hard time making a prediction this week. I
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  Speaker 1: made a prediction. I thought, no, that's too low. And
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  Speaker 1: then I made another prediction, and then I went, no,
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  Speaker 1: that's too high. I landed on Ohio State 20, Oregon 17,
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  Speaker 1: but with a relatively low degree of confidence. And looking
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  Speaker 1: through our staff picks, everyone's got Ohio State winning. I
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  Speaker 1: think almost no one has Ohio State covering. I think it's, what,
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  Speaker 1: six and a half. I think this is a game
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  Speaker 1: where You can sort of, on average, say Ohio State,
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  Speaker 1: between being at home, maybe a little bit more talented
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  Speaker 1: in a few spots. Maybe you give them a slight advantage,
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  Speaker 1: but the advantage I give Ohio State is probably less
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  Speaker 1: than the home field advantage. Just because you have a
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  Speaker 1: quarterback with more experience on the Oregon side, but... He
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  Speaker 1: had a couple picks against UCLA. He turned the ball
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  Speaker 1: over on a fumble last week against Northwestern. I just
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  Speaker 1: kind of throw my hands up and go, I don't know,
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  Speaker 1: Ohio State by three.
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  Speaker 2: Well, this morning it was seven and a half. And
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  Speaker 2: then I had to look at my phone to see
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  Speaker 2: what actually was the score prediction for myself. Because I
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  Speaker 2: could just throw another score out there and be like,
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  Speaker 2: I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: I went 27-20, which, again.
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  Speaker 2: A couple of field goals in there. Maybe with Oregon,
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  Speaker 2: an attempt at two-pointer that fails. We know that Oregon
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  Speaker 2: likes to do that. Dan Lanning likes to do that.
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  Speaker 2: But confidence level, I mean, Ohio State should win this.
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  Speaker 2: They're at home. Their backs are against the wall. It
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  Speaker 2: reminds me of Taylor Decker in 2014. in 2015 when
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  Speaker 2: they lost to Michigan State. And he said, if this
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  Speaker 2: culture means anything, we're going to beat Michigan. Something to
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  Speaker 2: that effect. Or after the Michigan game, he said that.
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  Speaker 2: Didn't want to say it beforehand. After the Michigan win,
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  Speaker 2: he said, if we wouldn't have won this game, then
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  Speaker 2: the culture wouldn't have meant what we said. So I
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  Speaker 2: guess I'll side with the Ohio State culture here.
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  Speaker 1: All right. Well, there you go. Look at today's game.
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